Post by LunarOrbit on Nov 28, 2005 23:28:42 GMT -4

Utter nonsense, I posted the message in the general discussion thread in a debate as to whether electrocution causes pain,

A debate that I would have allowed if you hadn't included the images. The images were not necessary for the debate.

the images came from the Florida Supreme Court's own website.

The photographs are in the public domain...

So? There are all sorts of gruesome and disgusting images online, that doesn't mean that we have to allow them here. The fact that there are cocaine users on the streets doesn't mean I should be required to invite them into my home, so why should I be forced to allow disgusting images in this forum?

...and the post did not come within a million miles of breaching ProBoard rules.

If electrocution is "vulgar" or "obscene"...

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the definitions of vulgar and obscene.

...then you would be better off taking it up with the State of Florida.

You won't get any arguments in favour of execution from me, but what the State of Florida allows is irrelevant to why I removed your thread. I'm only concerned with what Proboards allows and what I want to allow in this forum.

That's fine... if people WANT to see those images they can look for them, but I'm not allowing images like that here. You gave people no warning about the nature of those images, you more or less forced them to look at something they may not have wanted to see.

You posted them for their shock value and nothing more. You could have linked to the website that contained the images with a warning about their nature, instead you chose to post the images directly into the forum without a warning.

Now, as you know this forum has a rule against people re-registering after being banned. So ghost has been added to the banned list.

Post by PeterB on Dec 6, 2005 23:15:05 GMT -4

Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 18, 2006 1:27:22 GMT -4

Trident - banned for spamming (over 90 identical threads in an hour), rude behaviour (insults and swearing), and attempting to disrupt the forum.

Tropicalbreeze - rude behaviour (insults and swearing).

Both bans are permanent.

Trident and Tropicalbreeze claimed to believe that the moon landings were real and apparently believed this was a pro-hoax theory forum. They are examples of how we should not respond to the hoax believers.

Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 18, 2006 2:01:26 GMT -4

wow. I guess I'm not going nuts after all.

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. -- JayUtah

"On two occasions, I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

Post by mitrabor on Jan 21, 2006 19:19:39 GMT -4

admin said:

Trident and Tropicalbreeze claimed to believe that the moon landings were real and apparently believed this was a pro-hoax theory forum. They are examples of how we should not respond to the hoax believers.

Post by LunarOrbit on Jan 21, 2006 19:54:18 GMT -4

Trident and Tropicalbreeze claimed to believe that the moon landings were real and apparently believed this was a pro-hoax theory forum. They are examples of how we should not respond to the hoax believers.

Seems pretty clear to me...

They claimed to be Apollo supporters and were trying to disrupt this forum so that hoax believers wouldn't be able to use it.

Post by frenat on Jan 22, 2006 20:56:57 GMT -4

One of them (Trident) repeatedly posted the same post filled with rude lanquage which quickly filled up the first 4 pages of the hoax forum. The other (tropicalbreeze) obviously knew the first from the few intelligible posts he made. Most of his posts were just offensive language.